Manage publishing remotely

Automated publishing delivered remotely

Access the powerful, automated, multi-channel, multiscreen publishing capabilities of Adobe FrameMaker Publishing Server (2017 release) as a web service. Work more flexibly by scheduling publishing tasks any time, anywhere using your web browser. You can also integrate and schedule the FrameMaker publishing service from your content management system.

Comprehensive multiuser support Allow multiple users to access publishing services and run tasks remotely, at the same time, using their web browser. On logging in, users are able to see their own publishing tasks, output status, next-run date and time and logs generated; as well as their templates and presets and shared templates.

Automate tasks with ease

Increase enterprise productivity by managing publishing centrally. Create new publishing tasks by choosing the source file and types of output and specifying settings for each output required. Run your tasks instantly or schedule them for later. Easily view logs, outputs and published status and sign up for notifications.

Creation and re-use of publishing task templates Work productively with shareable, editable publishing task templates, in which you specify outputs and their associated settings, pre-publishing and post-publishing tasks, notifications and output location. Use template to publish with different source files and create tasks that will inherit the template’s settings.

Reusable presets for publishing Save time and effort by defining publishing presets. Use these presets with different source files to avoid having to specify settings repeatedly. Share your presets with other users across the organisation and standardise the appearance of enterprise content.

Scripting support for automation Perform customised processing on the input files in prepublication county. Create scripts with Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit to automate publication tasks, including prepublication tasks such as applying conditional text for single-sourced publication tasks.

Shared API with Adobe FrameMaker Use the same API and the FrameMaker Developer Kit for both Adobe FrameMaker Publishing Server (2017 release) and Adobe FrameMaker (2017 release)*, thereby making it easy for programmers to transfer their skills from one environment to the other.

Easily publish your DITA content to professional-looking output. Generate nested books and books with flat components. Create attractive book content from DITA maps by automatically generating titles and tables of contents, applying number properties and page rounding. Publish directly to PDF from the DITA map or through the book.

Shareable publishing task configuration Re-use settings to set up similar publishing tasks. For example, if you created a task to output PDF, Responsive HTML5 and eBook (EPUB 3, Kindle) formats from a set of source documents, you can edit this task to create a task for other source types.

Post-publish commands

Automatically run post-publish system commands or batch files. Use post-publish commands to automatically rename, move or archive output files, especially when running regular builds, so that subsequent builds do not overwrite earlier output files.

Command-line execution of builds

Invoke tasks and schedules created in FrameMaker Publishing Server from the Windows command line.

Extensive loggingTake advantage of extensive logging for all processes in publication tasks to comprehensively report all tasks executed by FrameMaker Publishing Server. You can customise the level of logging and the parameters to be logged and view logs for recently completed runs of the same task.

Generate stunning Responsive HTML5 output for multiple devices with just one click, even for your legacy content. Provide a consistent user experience across multiple screen types by simply selecting a single layout from a gallery of Responsive HTML5 layouts. Leverage the Responsive HTML5 output to create mobile apps easily.

Empower users to find relevant content faster in the document, TOC, index and glossary. Leverage existing conditional tags and expressions to enable end-users to dynamically filter content in the final HTML5 output to deliver personalised help experiences.

Customised fonts in EPUB files

Embed customised fonts in your EPUB files and ensure that your users see text exactly as you intended, whether or not they have the font installed on their device.

SVG support in HTML5 output Effortlessly ensure that your images always look good regardless of the screen size of the device on which they are being viewed, because FrameMaker Publishing Server (2017 release) embeds the entire SVG code in the final HTML5 output.

Reusable publishing elements

Re-use elements easily with the enhanced multi-device publishing settings file. Create elements, such as HTML5 layouts, CSS and HTML page templates, just once and import or export them for use across different settings files.

HTML page template support

Configure mini-TOCs, breadcrumbs and headers and footers just once and apply your settings easily to all outputs using the new HTML page template support.

Web APIs to integrate CMSs Publish documents in a CMS to multiple formats using templates by calling FrameMaker Publishing Server (2017 release) remotely via web APIs. The APIs work on resources such as tasks, templates and presets, to create, retrieve, update and delete resources. Additional APIs help schedule, kill and run tasks.

Integration with CMSs [Enhanced]

Leverage built-in connectors to industry-leading CMSs, Adobe Experience Manager, EMC Documentum, Microsoft SharePoint and DITA Exchange CMS. Use the Repository view to check out files, manage dependencies, monitor versions and perform searches, even with customised metadata. Get a set of APIs to connect your enterprise authoring environment with virtually any CMS.

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*Adobe FrameMaker (2017 release) is a separate product from Adobe FrameMaker Publishing Server (2017 release) and must be purchased separately.